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ELEVATION OF THE HOST, in an initial C cut from a Gradual, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Siena, 2nd quarter 14th century]
98 x 96mm (initial). A youthful tonsured priest standing before an altar gazing upward, the large host elevated to the full extent of his arms' reach, his chasuble held by a kneeling acolyte holding a tall candle, the initial with pink staves entwined with fleshy blue and green leaves, on a square ground of burnished gold surrounded by blue pen-flourishing, accompanied by portions of a foliate border from the same manuscript (cut to shape, slight flaking of burnished gold and of pigment from sections of the border). Mounted and framed.
The initial introduces the Introit for Mass on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Cibavit eos.
The border, with its attenuated and spiky foliage, is Sienese in style, and is very close to the type used by Lippo Vanni and his workshop: Il Gotico a Siena (1982), pp.269 & 275. Furthermore the composition of the Elevation of the Host repeats that of Vanni's initial for the same feast in the Gradual of the Collegiata di Casole d'Elsa (Siena) and the depressed profile of the celebrant is very reminiscent of the shallow, rather concave faces that result from Vanni's interest in showing figures from an indirect viewpoint.
[Siena, 2nd quarter 14th century]
98 x 96mm (initial). A youthful tonsured priest standing before an altar gazing upward, the large host elevated to the full extent of his arms' reach, his chasuble held by a kneeling acolyte holding a tall candle, the initial with pink staves entwined with fleshy blue and green leaves, on a square ground of burnished gold surrounded by blue pen-flourishing, accompanied by portions of a foliate border from the same manuscript (cut to shape, slight flaking of burnished gold and of pigment from sections of the border). Mounted and framed.
The initial introduces the Introit for Mass on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Cibavit eos.
The border, with its attenuated and spiky foliage, is Sienese in style, and is very close to the type used by Lippo Vanni and his workshop: Il Gotico a Siena (1982), pp.269 & 275. Furthermore the composition of the Elevation of the Host repeats that of Vanni's initial for the same feast in the Gradual of the Collegiata di Casole d'Elsa (Siena) and the depressed profile of the celebrant is very reminiscent of the shallow, rather concave faces that result from Vanni's interest in showing figures from an indirect viewpoint.